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Washington world. ena for washington, you need a different kind of lawyer than you need for southern district of new york criminal lawyer. being a lawyer in washington who is more media savvy, who understands the way congressional investigations work, who understands the 24/7 nature of the media cycle. his current lawyer steve ryan, whom ive known for 25 years, is up with of the best that way. hes a practiced criminal lawyer. he worked on capitol hill. hes been through this before. i frankly thi...

Likely make its way all the way up to the supreme court. so this could be a very big battle that could go on over months, potentially, and be another cloud hanging over this presidency, in addition to this investigation, this question about whether or not the president will even sit down for an interview with mueller. >> and i noted that rudy giuliani slipped in the mention of a possible subpoena with laura ingraham who is herself a very good lawyer. nelson, youre nodding yes. >> last month i sa...

You wrote the book, co-wrote the book russian roulette. you know a lot about michael cohen. it seems like he is changing lawyers. we have gotten that confirmed. a lot of it may have to do with money. we know he had at least 15 lawyers and two data specialists working around the clock to the point of collapse. im guessing we are talking about millions of dollars. you add that, this financial devastation to the possibility of being operated from your family with jail time. based on what you know a...

District took over the investigation, and he learned that after the searches, youre right. thats why he had steve ryan. i think ce things, from my experience, for the past ten years, when i was doing white collar case, almost every single defense counsel that i dealt with came from that office. thats -- and theres reasor different offices are particularized. so i think we dont actually disagreement tha, nelson. >> okay,the always agreeable shannon, we just want to let you know, we havent forgott...

Of a suddenion that his attorneys are now leaving? >> all of these things may have played into it. conflicts between steve ryan and his client, money, all of that. its also notable, according to the reports we read, that the special master appointed to look at these documented looked at 300,000 documents, only 162 of them were even worth discussing in terms of attorney-client privilege. she rejected attorney-chinlient privilege with respect to only three documents. it may be, and this is specula...

Strategy. weve been told that cohen has not met with anyone from the prosecutors office. and were not sure whether he is interested in cutting a deal or whether the prosecutors are interested in having him cut a deal. >> and i just talked to a source who said what yourhat it sounds could be both. sounds like it is about both, meaning that michael cohens attorney, mr. ryan, was hired to focus on washington, to focus on the fact that he was testifying before congress and so forth. then it shifted ...

Familiar with trying cases in the southern district. steve ryan is known more as a washington lawyer. now, in fairness to steve ryan, hes very well regarded and tried criminal cases, as but this doesnt mean that cohen is cooperating. it could mean a lot of other things. >> does it matter, paul, who dropped who? >> no, because it could -- you dont know what the back story is between the attorneys and cohen. if they got wind of fact that cohen was loo for a change, that angers them and theyre prob...

Where judge kimba wood said look you have to stop this publicity four tour if you want to continue this this case. and you had steve ryan, michael cohens attorney say his professional conduct ive never seen anything like it in my 30-some years of practicing law and you had the lawyer for donald trump piling on. >> what about the southern district of new york? >> they said were not wading into this. and i think thats the point, right? this is a sideshow that people and michael cohen and his attor...

Just like the nixon tapes, years ago, we now have what i will refer to as the trump tapes. mr. ryan admitted that there are audio recordings, that michael cohen was taking for years. not only do they exist, but they are under lock and key and some of them relate to my client and her attorney/client privileged communications. >> youre calling these the trump tapes. that is very interesting. that is very exciting. but you dont in fact know whether donald trump is or is not on any of these tapes ye...

Correspondent steve ckornacki, and also an msnbc contributor. steve, start with the premise in our political unit. if youre perceived as business as usual, a washington insider, watch out. what happened last night that might lead to that conclusion? >> yeah. i think theres complexity to it. the obvious one here is indiana. the republican senate primary. what you had, two republican members of congress. both lost it a guy who sort of fashioned himself as the ultimate outsider. mike brawn. busines...